EDD spends weekend playing catch-up

Department works through backlog of payments

Hundreds of workers from the California Employment Development Department spent the weekend processing claims and trying to cut the backlog of 80,000 claims. About 13,000 delayed claims were processed.

By the end of the weekend, more than 60,000 claims still had to be processed. Some unemployed Californians have been waiting for weeks to receive benefits.

The backlog was created when the EDD upgraded its 30-year-old payment processing system. A computer glitch tied up a portion of the claims. More than 800,000 were processed normally.

Some are expected to be paid by Tuesday.

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